Hi, Gary. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Gary Poster <[email protected]> wrote: > Deryck and the Yellow squad (especially Graham), could you also doublecheck > to make sure you don't think I've misrepresented anything or indicated a > problematic direction? >
I have a couple observations/thoughts after reading this closely. But first off, thanks for the hard work of putting this together. It's very well thought out. == Nice to have vs. Must == I think the "X-Launchpad-Subscription-Description" header idea in the "Nice to have" section is actually a requirement. The former bugs team realized in alpha testing that without something like this it becomes very difficult to filter mail according to subscription filter. Likewise, we need some plain text equivalent for the rationale -- "You received this mail because you are subscribed to Launchpad project bugs tagged with lp-foo" -- and this will help Gmail users who can't filter based on headers. == Nice to have (not!) == Were it me, I would be very careful about considering re-enabling subscriptions for distributions. It's a bit simplistic to describe the problem as primarily technical vs. social. They are all wrapped up together. I would probably state it like this: Allowing people to subscribe to all Ubuntu bugs creates lots of problems. :-) I realize people want to fix technical issues and leave social issues to communities, but in my time on bugs, this was always a source of problems. I fear that if you re-enable this in order to allow filtering on the distro at the highest level, you will end up creating even more unique opportunities for people to get themselves subscribed to a ton of bug mail and not be able to work out what happened. I would certainly consider this out of scope since it enlarges the bug mail options, rather than reducing noise or providing more control. If this story is a great success, then leave it to someone else to work out how to add this back in. Also, I'm not sure anyone is really asking for this. It's only nice, IMHO, in a theoretical sense or for technical purity (i.e. you can subscribe to other pillars, so why not distros?). Again, other than these two points, this looks well thought out and well described. Cheers, deryck -- Deryck Hodge https://launchpad.net/~deryck http://www.devurandom.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
